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New Release Review - Piranha 3DD

Directed by: John Gulager
Starring: Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, Gary Busey, Chris Zylka

The killer fish from "Piranha 3D" make their way to a newly opened waterpark looking for fresh blood.

Minnelli May - The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Leo G. Carroll, Gilbert Roland, Elaine Stewart, Ivan Triesault

An actress (Turner), writer (Powell), and director (Sullivan) recount their experiences working with ruthless producer Douglas.

Minnelli May - Brigadoon (1954)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Barry Jones, Elaine Stewart

American tourists Kelly and Johnson stumble across the remote village of Brigadoon in the Scottish wilds, a place that only appears every hundred years. Falling for local girl Charisse, Kelly faces a choice, return to New York or disappear in time with the village.

Minnelli May - Undercurrent (1946)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Jayne Meadows

Hepburn begins to suspect her husband, Taylor, has murdered his missing brother, Mitchum, and plans to dispatch her next.

New Release Review - Silent House

Directed by: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens

Olsen finds herself trapped in her family's lakeside retreat with strangers who seem to have attacked her father in this remake of the Uruguayan thriller "La Casa Muda".

Minnelli May - An American In Paris (1951)


Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Struggling expat American painter Kelly falls for up and coming French dancer Caron, the girlfriend of his friend Guétary.

Pre-Code Retrospective - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Directed by: Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong

Shipwrecked on a remote island, McCrea and Wray find themselves the prey in an elaborate hunt run by the island's resident psycho, Russian Count Banks.

Great Movie Posters - Vincente Minnelli

Minnelli May - The Band Wagon (1953)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, James Mitchell 

Astaire is a faded Hollywood star who returns to New York to reignite his broadway career.

First Time Watches - April 2012

Turn Me On 'Dammit (2012)
On paper this sounded like a Norwegian "Welcome To The Dollhouse" but it's much more aimed at a teen audience.

New Release Review - The Avengers

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey Jnr, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlet Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Stellan Skarsgard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cobie Smulders

A disparate band of superheroes come together to save the earth from a Norse God and an invading alien army.

New Release Review - Elfie Hopkins

Directed by: Ryan Andrews
Starring: Jaime Winstone, Aneurin Barnard, Rupert Evans, Ray Winstone, Kimberley Nixon

When the inhabitants of a small Welsh village start disappearing, amateur sleuth Winstone suspects her new neighbours and proceeds to investigate.

New Release Review - Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Amr Waked, Tom Mison, Rachael Stirling

The unlikely pairing of Blunt and McGregor team up to help a Yemeni sheik realise his dream of bringing salmon fishing to his land.

New Release Review - Lockout

Directed by: James Mather & Stephen St. Ledger
Starring: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James

Convict Pearce is given a chance to go free after agreeing to rescue the President's daughter from an outer space prison where the inmates have taken control.

New Release Review - Elles

Directed by: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Elle columnist Binoche questions her bourgeois existence while researching an article on students who turn to prostitution.

New Release Review - Jesus Henry Christ

Directed by: Dennis Lee
Starring: Toni Collette, Michael Sheen, Jason Spevack, Samantha Weinstein

Spevack is a kid with the second highest ever recorded IQ who tracks down Sheen, his sperm donor father.

New Release Review - The Divide

Directed by: Xavier Gens
Starring: Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Courtney B. Vance, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Eklund

Following a nuclear attack on New York, a group of survivors hole up in the basement of their apartment block. Tensions run high and eventually they give in to the most primal instincts of humanity.

New Release Review - Battleship

Directed by: Peter Berg
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rhianna, Taylor Kitsch, Peter MacNicol

The Hasbro board game finally gets the movie adaptation we've all been waiting for.

New Release Review - The Cabin In The Woods

Directed by: Drew Goddard
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Amy Acker

A bunch of college kids, closely resembling the Scooby Doo gang, head off to the titular retreat for a weekend of fun. Little do they know that their every move is being manipulated by Whitford and Jenkins, part of an underground network who keep the world safe by sacrificing young people to subterranean Gods.

New Release Review - Gone

Directed by: Heitor Dhalia
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore

Having been abducted herself a year previously, Seyfried takes the law into her own hands when her sister disappears.